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Inclisiran









No inspection was conducted and the FDA will establish a path to do one.

But....they won’t do this until it is deemed safe to travel to the site. What does this mean? Airports are far from empty these days. What is really going on?

The whole thing seems skeptical but one thing is certain.....the Covid conditions that have been so recently ignored/overlooked will now dictate a big delay. Wonderful.
 
































Is anyone surprised at this point? Mike & Duane are tick- tocking and acting like the pandemic is over. SOC lead launch teams are a mess and accounts are based on opinions of people who don’t have a definable job.
 




Is anyone surprised at this point? Mike & Duane are tick- tocking and acting like the pandemic is over. SOC lead launch teams are a mess and accounts are based on opinions of people who don’t have a definable job.

Nope, not surprised. None of these over-paid asshole have any buy and bill experience. They paid twice what the drug is even worth. The whole class has been out for 5 years and not one had sold anywhere close to a billion. Inclisiran looks less effective than the others and not as clean. Total shit show.
 
















Nope, not surprised. None of these over-paid asshole have any buy and bill experience. They paid twice what the drug is even worth. The whole class has been out for 5 years and not one had sold anywhere close to a billion. Inclisiran looks less effective than the others and not as clean. Total shit show.
Let’s be honest, it really depends to a good degree on how it is priced. No matter what, the class will always face PA/step edit hurdles as statins plus generic zeta can provide comparable efficacy. So it’s really not going to be first line, however it could own the class (and expand it) IF it’s priced very aggressively. I’m not sure exactly what the number is, but maybe $2-3kyr before rebates would open the floodgates. There is a lot of positive anticipation from the cardio folks, so we will see.
 




Let’s be honest, it really depends to a good degree on how it is priced. No matter what, the class will always face PA/step edit hurdles as statins plus generic zeta can provide comparable efficacy. So it’s really not going to be first line, however it could own the class (and expand it) IF it’s priced very aggressively. I’m not sure exactly what the number is, but maybe $2-3kyr before rebates would open the floodgates. There is a lot of positive anticipation from the cardio folks, so we will see.

2-3k a year is out of touch with reality. It’s going to be premium priced, have zero outcomes and reps who don’t have buy/bill experience. Launch will be a disaster if it’s ever actually approved.
 




2-3k a year is out of touch with reality. It’s going to be premium priced, have zero outcomes and reps who don’t have buy/bill experience. Launch will be a disaster if it’s ever actually approved.

All true. Direction from the top indicates even leadership doesn’t understand the buy and bill process.